Bio
Adrian Smith is a landscape architect and planner whose projects range from rural to urban, greenfield to brownfield, private to public. His work has grown from a New York City based practice where he contributed to projects like Central Park's Great Lawn, the Hudson River Park and the expansion of the USTA Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, to an international practice that includes seaside hotels and resort communities.Landscapes have the amazing ability to teach us important lessons about our culture and the environment - a rain garden at a Revolutionary War battlefield connects the present with the past, a shrub and vine collection at Harvard's Arnold Arboretum joins the study of trees with their smaller cousins, shrubs, and the recreated natural habitats at the Central Park and Queens Zoos heighten our sensitivity to creatures who normally live in places far from New York City. Creating environments in academic settings also encourages learning as it has at the Courtyard of the College of Natural Sciences at Keene State University, the master plan for the medical campus at the University of Virginia and a rooftop courtyard for Columbia University's Teacher's College. Building on work completed at EDAW/AECOM, ARGOS Design, Dirtworks, PC, and Douglas Reed Landscape Architecture, Adrian's current focus is on working with nature to create uniquely meaningful, environmentally sensitive landscapes regardless of scale, geography or program.
